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The following sentence from the text has three hyphenated compound words, “These could be comprehensionchecking tasks or note-taking tasks, or you could establish forums to enable peer interaction around the content. Asking students to create something, like a role-play or short piece of writing, can be a great way for students to show what they have understood.”Considering the underlined words, they are classified as, respectively,
Qual das palavras da frase, abaixo, é um substantivo?
He is in jail because of a criminal act.
A compound subject is a sentence that has two or more nouns used as subjects which are joined by the conjunction "and." Choose the correct alternative that presents a sentence containing a compound subject.
In English, a noun is a word used to name a person, place, thing, or idea. In this sense, choose the alternative that shows the right definition of abstract nouns.
In the old days, we didn’t much write like talking because there was no mechanism to reproduce the speed of conversation. But texting and instant messaging do — and a revolution has begun. It involves the brute mechanics of writing, but in its economy, spontaneity and even vulgarity, texting is actually a new kind of talking. There is a virtual cult of concision and little interest in capitalization or punctuation. The argument that texting is “poor writing” is analogous, then, to one that the Rolling Stones is “bad music” because it doesn’t use violas. Texting is developing its own kind of grammar and conventions.Internet: <ideas.time.com>.
Based on the previous text, judge the following item.
The word “texting” is used in the text as a noun.
As soon as learners step outside the classroom, they act as users of English who communicate with other speakers of English from a wide variety of linguacultural backgrounds. Given the global spread of English and the fact that the majority of users do not speak English as their mother tongue, learners are likely to be involved in interactions with other non-native speakers. These situations then bear the hallmarks of English as a lingua franca (ELF), which is “any use of English among speakers of different first languages for whom English is the communicative medium of choice, and often the only option”, according to Seidlhofer. Since ELF speakers represent various cultures and languages, ELF contexts of use are characterized by diversity and the subsequent unpredictability and variability of communication. Therefore, interactions where English functions as a lingua franca require active engagement in the meaning-making process by the participants.Éva Illés and Sumru Akcan. Bringing real-life language use into EFLclassrooms. In: ELT Journal, Volume 71, Issue 1, 2017, p. 3-12 (adapted).
The word “functions” (in the second paragraph) is used as a noun.
Considering the grammatical and semantic aspects of text I, decide whether the following items are right (C) or wrong (E).
The word “Orientalist” (l.49) could be correctly replaced by Orientalists.
In text I, without altering the meaning of the sentence, the noun “realms” (l.35) could be replaced by (mark right — C — or wrong — E): spheres.
In text I, without altering the meaning of the sentence, the noun “realms” (l.35) could be replaced by (mark right — C — or wrong — E):
domains.
divisions.
Based on the text, judge the following item.
A little is considered a correct alternative for “a few” in “a few channels” (lines 7 and 8).
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